“The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.” HeartCountryStatesCultureUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesKeysInternetCivilizationNervousDigitalNervous SystemTelecommunicationsCirculatory System Author:Carlos Slim
“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” Would BeCultureMemoriesInspiringCivilizationHolocaustNo Memory Author:Elie Wiesel
“Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly; the majority of scientists deny it could possibly be there at all. It plays no part in popular culture: no one sings about it, no one talks about it in plays, and it's not on TV. We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.” MindBelieveRealPlaySufferingCultureSpeakWrittenModernInformationTvsBuddhismCivilizationOrdinaryScientistMajorityPhilosopherDenyPursuitSensesEducatedPerceiveDelusionDevotedCultPopular CultureModern Civilization Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.” CultureIndividualNationsSimpleExistenceAcceptingCasesTakenSocietyReadyHigherCivilizationOppositesIndividualityVicesGrantedVice VersaFloweringSimple Truths Author:Rajneesh
“But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.” WorldNeedsIdeasSometimesCultureTakenCivilizationDiversityWesternHumanismPessimismBrotherhoodProspectsUnity In Diversity Author:Amartya Sen
“Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the great culture, the great church, the great state to which we belong. Our whole politics is stupid, and then HE becomes stupid. Our whole education is ugly. Our politics means nothing but ambition, naked ambition - ambition for power. And only the lowest kind of people become interested in power.” PeopleKindMeanChildrenStatesWholeCultureProcessBornChurchStupidCivilizationAmbitionUglyNakedSaneLowest Author:Rajneesh
“Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples.” WorldImportantCultureGeniusCivilizationAchievementToolsIslamIslamicIslamic Culture Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Angels appear to transcend all cultures, races, and systems. They are a part of human history and civilization, sometimes at the forefront, other times in the shadows, but they are always there. They don't belong to any one particular religion, although many modern people try to associate them with Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. No one religion holds total responsibility for the belief in angels. In truth, these religions only support the existence of angels, they didn't create them.” PeopleTryingHumansSometimesCultureBeliefRaceExistenceResponsibilityChristianitySupportModernParticularCivilizationAngelShadowIslamAssociatesJudaismHuman History Author:Silver RavenWolf
“Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.” HumansFormValuesCultureGoalTeachingEvolutionPeriodsCivilizationBenefitsRootsCriticismUltimateMethodChecksObjectivesRelativeImpressStandpointExaggeratedLiableUltimate GoalOther CulturesSprungHuman EvolutionValuationDeprivingRelative Value Author:Franz Boas
“We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.” ThinkingShouldMindDoeIdeasPurposeCultureChallengesAbilityForgetMistakeEducationCompassionCareersFailingMoralityCivilizationTrainingManagementSpeedTechniqueDefinedPurpose Of EducationTrue Purpose Author:Chris Hedges